Time Shift
After Terranus and his new friends took over the old mansion, they set up an agreement with the people from the village – its name was Perusia (today Perugia). It made sure, that humans and vampires could live there in peace together. They were equal in almost all ways. Terranus was glad, that things went this way after his bad experiences at Roma. Here he had not to hide his vampiric side. The humans in Perusia agreed to give the vampires blood, when they needed it. At first they felt a bit awkward to let someone drink their blood. But the people got used to it, because they recognized, that no one of the vampires would endanger them. Actually Terranus and his friends helped the village to grow and to develop in the next two centuries.
Terranus enjoyed this harmony between humans and his people. And after the years of peaceful living, he almost forgot about the things which happened in Roma. But then another problem occurred. Because the existence of a vampire was seriously unnatural, vampires had to take some kind of break from being awake. They needed to rest for several years to renew this unnatural power, which let them to exist, even when their human life span is already over. It was kind of a deep sleep and it was named it torpor.
Terranus' friends took their time to sleep some years. Just Terranus himself refused to let his body rest. He knew that he should had to, but he did not want to leave Adina alone for years. Besides that, she also needed his blood every full moon to stay alive. Her normal life span ended a long time ago now, too. So Terranus spent his time with Adina and took care about the village, when his friends were sleeping in torpor.
At the middle of the year 189 A.D. Terranus felt, that something odd was happening to his body. It was just a brief feeling. There was nothing definite, just similar to the feeling a small leaf cause when it falls softly to the bare skin. But Terranus did not get the chance to think about it. Something happened this summer, nobody in Perusia counted on it anymore.
